哀江頭 杜甫

哀江頭        杜甫(712-770)

少陵野老吞聲哭，春日潛行曲江曲。

江頭宮殿鎖千門，細柳新蒲為誰綠？
憶昔霓旌下南苑，苑中萬物生顏色。
昭陽殿裡第一人，同輦隨君侍君側。
輦前才人帶弓箭，白馬嚼齧黃金勒。
翻身向天仰射雲，一笑正墜雙飛翼。
明眸皓齒今何在？血污遊魂歸不得。
清渭東流劍閣深，去住彼此無消息。
人生有情淚沾臆，江水江花豈終極！
黃昏胡騎塵滿城，欲往城南望城北。

Lamentation by the lake         Du Fu (712-770)

On a spring day lurching along the bends of Lake Serpentine,

This gaffer from Shaoling has his tears gulped down,
On the waterside thousands of doors are locked in the chateaux,
For whom have the fresh willows and rushes put on their verdancy?
I remember when the Emperor’s rainbow banners made their way down
Into the South Park, everything seemed to bloom with radiance,
The First Lady of the Zhaoyang Palace,
Rode with her lord in the same carriage in attendance,
Before the campaign were her maids of honour with bows and arrows armed,
Riding on white horses with golden bridles champed,
Leaning back, faces sky-bound, they shot into the clouds,
The Lady laughed heartily when a bird well shot fell to the ground,
Where are the glistening eyes and charming smile now to be found?
Being blood stained, her stray wraith finds no way round,
Waters of the Wei are east bound and Jiange is far gone,
Between the dead and the living communication has broken down;
It’s only human to shed tears for such mischance,
But the waters and the flowers by the lake are not done, forever they go on, undaunted,
Dusk falls, the city is full of foreign horsemen’s dust,
My way is to the city south, but my eyes are north bound.